Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

Fwix expanded its scope in mid-2010 to include status updates, events, weather, ad listings, reviews and concerts in addition to news, and launched a local search feature for that content in July 2010.

Fwix has released an API allowing other companies to integrate its news stream into their sites and apps. It has a partnership with The New York Times Co. to put its news feeds on each of the company’s newspaper websites.

In 2009, Fwix launched an iPhone app that allows users to submit automatically geotagged posts, photos and videos to its local feeds.

The Newsonomics of journalistic star power — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] Maybe it’s a trend, or maybe i...

Patch is a network of local news sites with a combination of staff-produced and community-contributed material. It is owned by Hale Global, with former owner AOL retaining a small stake. The company, which focuses exclusively on local news, began with a handful of sites in New Jersey and Connecticut and is now in about 900 communities. It…

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